Card Buffet

Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features an image to color, because it’s National Coloring Day! I love to color! When my girls were young, this was a favorite past time for us. We we went out to eat, we always had coloring books along with the… [Read More]

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – I love this sketch! I’ve used it to create a few cards already! Today I’ll share this fall inspired one – Isn’t this simply gorgeous? I used the colors in the Come to Gather Designer Series Paper starting… [Read More]

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest challenge – I knew the minute I saw this sketch I wanted to play with the Wish for It All bundle! Really sweet card, right? And, perfect for a birthday or wedding or any day someone should just feel special!… [Read More]

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – Lovely colors! Perfect chance to play with the wonderful Scallop Note Cards & Envelopes – What do you think? Pretty sweet? I used the 6×6 In Color Designer Series Paper for the checked background. The beautiful band… [Read More]

Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday. You know what that means, another two week challenge to inspire you! I love that we have an inspiration photo to go with our layout this time! I sort of went with the colors creating this – This gorgeous Designer Series Paper is Mosaic Mood. It’s a nice heavy weight… [Read More]

Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features the 3 D’s : Dies, DSP, and Dazzle! What a great theme! I combined two gorgeous products here – The candle and sentiment dies are from the Wish for It All bundle. See a Silhouette is the Designer Series Paper… [Read More]

Happy Sunday! Getting ready for a couple fabulous Card Buffets today! This will be one of the cards to chose from – Simply lovely! I love this smaller version of the Daisy Punch! I’m sure it will be a favorite today! You can see my Card Buffet choices on my Facebook page. Stampin’ Up Supplies… [Read More]

Bird Ballard Birthday? Yes, Bird Ballard is this name of this adorable Designer Series Paper I used for this card – Notice the colorful sentiment? I used the colors from the paper to create a match! I know, you’re wondering just how did I do that…. I placed the stamp on my Stamparatus. I colored… [Read More]

Still making a card a day! Wahoo! Today, I was inspired by CAS(E) this sketch and their layout – And, also the Paper Players for some color guidance – Great combination for some #simplestamping – This is just soo sweet! And, easy! The larger swirly circle is inked up then stamped off (stamped on scrap),… [Read More]

Hello my Friday friends! July is a third over and I’m creating and sharing something everyday because it’s my birthday month! I was inspired by this sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches – I am also designing cards for my upcoming Card Buffet. This might be a winner here – A beautiful sunflower! The center… [Read More]

Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is our newest two week challenge – Optional Theme : Pastels I got this! I paired this soon to retire Share What You Love Designer Series Paper with the Cake Builder punch to create this quick and easy elegant birthday card – I was running wayyy late last week… [Read More]

Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! Here is out latest two week challenge – Optional Theme : Brown Paper Bag Fail. I didn’t use any brown paper bag. I did however turn the sketch on the side and use bold and bright colors, totally opposite of a brown bag!!! This is a wonderfully cheery, fun, perfect… [Read More]

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Connie and Mary challenge! Here is our newest color challenge – When I saw these colors, I thought they were very serene, which sparked a sympathy card – I was amazed at the fact I placed the sentiment on the Stamparatus exactly next to the ‘flourish’! So, I have… [Read More]

Welcome to our Create with Connie and Mary Thursday challenge. Here is our newest sketch challenge to get your creativity going! I took a fun approach to this one creating a masculine card – It was extremely simple using the Classic Garage 6×6 Designer Series Paper and the Garage Gears Thinlits. One of the patterns… [Read More]

Yippee! It’s Friday! And, a blog hop! Our theme this month is Mother’s Day. I designed a card perfect to send out to all of our friends who do it all – …..with a little help from coffee! I really love the Strong & Beautiful stamp set. All the words are just what you really… [Read More]

Happy Try Stampin’ on Tuesday! We have another inspirational two week challenge! Such a great way to get you to play with your stuff and be creative! Optional Theme : Watercolor What a great simple layout to work with. Especially, if you flip it as I did! I chose a masculine card! It’s simply great… [Read More]

This past weekend I hosted my monthly Card Buffet. I post the Buffet choices on my Facebook page and on Instagram. Here were the choices – I was quite funny that I was trying to figure out what card 3 was going to be. I knew I wanted to use the Butterly Gala Bundle so… [Read More]

Welcome to our inspirational Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop! Our theme this week features cards that move. I decided to try a Step Out Panel Card – Well, I made two! They were soo much fun to create! I just couldn’t decide on the focal point! Here is a side / back picture… [Read More]